[Gllug] Solaris IP Multipath Routing facility in Linux

Jim Cheetham jim at gonzul.net
Wed Sep 12 15:01:43 UTC 2001


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:48:27AM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >	We have a number of Solaris boxen sat at the front of a network,
> >dually loadbalancing and cute stuff like that, using the Solaris
> >IP Network Multipathing facility.
> 
> The only problem, at least with the current Solaris implementation,
> is that it needs 4 IP addresses per machine -- two for data, and
> two for heartbeat. What's worse is that these all have to be on a

I agree about the heartless consumption of addresses, but that becomes
"just" an administrative headache ...

What I'm interested in knowing is of any linux config/package that
acts in a similar manner as the Solaris stuff, both from the incoming
and outgoing perspective ...

-jim

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